MillenniumAspen

Come to the Queer Chamber. I wait for you there, where we last met, countless ages ago."" Come to me, through love and protest. I welcome you. Welcome, Queer-and-Proud. I have prepared a place for you. Come. Bring Wraithguard to the Queer Chamber. Together let us free our cursed closeted brethren." "Welcome, Nerevar. Together we shall speak for the Law and the Land, and shall drive the mongrel dogs of the Republicans from Morrowind. Is this how you honor the Sixth House, and the queers unmourned? Come to me openly, and not by stealth. Dagoth Ur welcomes you, Nerevar, my old gay "friend". But to this place where slay is made. Why have you come unhappy? Welcome, Queer-and-Proud to this place where slay is made.

She looks like she is going to be blown away.

My 1st pixel art, hope u like it! ^^

This is Money Snake. She only appears every 312 years. 

When I was digging through the leak tag to block the leak-enthusiasts, I noticed some strange specific wording being used about them justifying their reactions or their behavior. Such as saying how much they had "bonded" over specific characters and thus whatever happened to this character would be very dependant and absolutely key to their behavior towards the show or how they would consider the show in its entirety. Now, if you are used to the TADC fandoms and pseudo-dramas, you know people have been getting unhealthily obsessed and disturbingly "possessive" of their characters since day one.

But the thing is it isn't just happening for TADC, it is happening for a lot of other shows and products as well, and... As I looked at the wording of the sentences a disturbing comparison hit me. The way some people spoke about it was religious. Not in content but in tone and implications. When you look at a lot of these people getting obsessed over specific characters, while jokes are expected at nerds or parasocial or delusional people or whatever, I invite you to consider it by a religious angle.

We are talking about people devoting their life and time to these fictional figures, basing their decisions and their view of the world solely on them. We are talking about a lot of FAITH here, with the theories, the headcanons, and when the official things (or other people) contradict this faith they have, these beliefs they have, they treat them as people used to treat heretics back then. (And then there's also the reverse with the literal demonization of specific characters or even IRL figures in relation to fictional characters).

People joked that the old religious wars were replaced by the fandom wars, but this comparison is becoming so accurate it is not a comparison anymore. There is a religiosity in the way people treat fictional characters and cartoons nowadays (ESPECIALLY cartoons - you see this less with shows or movies using IRL actors because the very presence of the actor as a human being existing outside of the character tends to break the full "faith immersion", but even then we all know it still happened too many times that actors were treated as their own character).

And this disturbing religiosity echoes a lot of other recent things that happened... The way a lot of the so called "neo-pagans" on the Internet are actually sharing entire conversations they presumably had with their "gods" and you see that they treat them as imaginary friends more than actual deities... And this whole wave of insanity about people believing their dreams their real, that lucid dreaming was travelling to other universes, and fantasizing about specific events made them as real as IRL ones... And more recently you can see how heavily dependant and reliant people become on AI-running virtual entities that they often themselves create, this whole AI-chatbot addiction...